Random Rants
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Yeah I have many months like that @spitfiredealer… With a zero balance every month I am essentially a nonprofit with out tax benefits.
Un saludo!
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Hate buying a new car. You get squeeze in one or both ways - upfront MSRP and backend trade-in.
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I regret offering my services to other engineers in my office. I got sucked into a failing project, which was designed by new and untrained people. After spending a week fixing the issues, I have to spend another week training the new people, while my own projects have been at a stand-still. I don't mind helping or training people, but I wasn't planning on this being a 2 week commitment. Ugh.
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I've just been sent a coding test for a potential client. They want me to write a simple native Android slider game app, which looks like this.
It needs to play nice with taps and swipes, and not get screwed up by multitouch. They reckon it should take no more than four hours to do, "but it does need to be finished".
Right…
A quick Google, and I found the source code for something similar on Github. Given the size of the program, I'd estimate that it's about a week's work to write something new from scratch.
The only way that I can do this test in the timeframe specified is if I cheat, at which point the purpose of the exercise is wasted. Or I could offer to write a complete app if they honour the invoice that I'll submit at the end of it.
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Resistance is futile
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why not cheat? How do you know they're not checking for your ability to use existing sources with adequate licenses?
I sent in a message with a link to a GitHub repository containing a tile puzzle app, and pointed out:
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The number of lines of code roughly equated to a week's work.
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There were multiple checkins per day for three days, and then single checkins per day for a further nine days. That would suggest my estimate is somewhere in the right ballpark, or possible even too low.
Cue angry agent saying that she couldn't submit my response to the client…
I don't have a problem with technical tests provided that they can actually be completed in an hour or two. In fact, a test like this is a negative for a potential client: It implies that they don't have the necessary technical skills to make a feasible estimate of how long a project will take, which could mean unrealistic deadlines; and they don't really care about a candidate's work / life balance.
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Okay. So looking @ the tile puzzle app repo, the license is the standard MIT license; "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
You are legally allowed to clone the repo, include the license, make tweaks of your own and go for it. Real world everything is using libraries anyhow. Any half decent company is asking to see if you're going to use existing legal sources…
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Too, too many boozers are being closed down or turned into gastro pubs - souless veneers, faux tiling and fake exposed brick are replacing solid, old hard wood and character.
Breaks my pickled heart.
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@den213:
People calling themselves 'vegans' while wearing leather shoes, leather belts, leather jackets etc. You refuse to eat an animal's meat but it's okay to wear its skin? Doesn't make sense to me.
Friends of me are 'vegans'.. They don't wear any leather clothes, shoes etc..
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@den213:
People calling themselves 'vegans' while wearing leather shoes, leather belts, leather jackets etc. You refuse to eat an animal's meat but it's okay to wear its skin? Doesn't make sense to me.
Many vegans like to recycle; thus using leather (excluding some exotics) could be viewed as merely recycling the leftovers of animal production for foodstuffs. Plus, if the hides are valuable then less harm will occur to those hides in life. This is something people who work in the industry will tell you. Though there are still ways to beat and bruise animals into submission without damaging the hides; it is somewhat of an art form actually. Also, not all vegans care about animals. Some are merely interested in optimal health; athletes, sports heroes, former presidents, academics, nutritionists, the list goes on… Veganism is essentially an umbrella which takes in a wide spectrum of priorities.
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@den213:
People calling themselves 'vegans' while wearing leather shoes, leather belts, leather jackets etc. You refuse to eat an animal's meat but it's okay to wear its skin? Doesn't make sense to me.
'Vegan' is hip! .. and it's cool and important to preach and tell everyone about.
The most of them are false twaddler! -
Just like pigs, humans will basically survive on anything. Unlike pigs though, humans are mostly vile, dumb, stinking animals.
You've been watching me, haven't you? :o
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